30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie.
Year 2007
Music Genre: Metal
A beautiful lie - 30 seconds to mars' 2nd full length album. I first heard of these guys at the Give it a name festival this year, as the song ' from yesterday' was played on the screans pretty much all the time i saw the video and they instantly hooked me, interesting, looked stunning, sounded amazing, the album sounds very epic and agressive. The album is a mixture of, sythetic rock an metal. Songs that stand out are as follows: 'From Yesterday' an amazing song probably the best off the album, it starts off very mellow with this good peace of gutaring, then just builds from there, it turns into this amazing and very epic sounding song, with some brilliant riffs, and synthersizer effects, also it just builds and builds on itself and then at the end just cuts to scilence, the song always makes me feel it should be in a movie, well the video to it is a movie about a japanase king sending for entertainment on his birthday, it has some amazing camera shot and the scenes are incredible, especially the part when the guys go through a massive sword fighting scene, and then towards the end of the video, this massive firework display happens. 'The Kill' is about a love relationship thats falling apart, also it sounds like a letter, where the person is asking lots of questions eg: 'What if I wanted to fight Beg for the rest of my life What would you do?' the song is very poweful, and has some incredible sounds effects going on in the background, amazing riffs, again very epic sounding and very agressive too. 'Attack' is a song about a relationship that stopping one person from doing what they want to do in life, because the other one is insecure, so the person has to run away from it or he will attack, like an animal that dosen't like to be pulled about, cool video game type sound by the keyboard, the sound is fast paced agressive. 'A Modern Myth' this song is one of my favourites, just a man and his guitar singing his heart out, its the last song on the album, very mellow and a great way to finish, its a a goodbye song, that starts off with a simple yet effective acoustic guitar riff, its whispered at first then the vocals get loulder and loulder, an amazing track and just one to sing along to, it also has this really cool interlude part with just an acousic solo, the lyics are really strong for eg: 'To buy the truth, and sell a lie, the last mistake before you die so don't forget to breathe tonight, tonight's the last so say good-bye'. Other songs to look out for are: 'The Story', 'The Fantasy'. Only one thing i think they could improve on the next album is to have it more upbeat, faster and not too repetative as this album gets towards the middle, but apart from that its a well written album, if your a fan then i recommend it because its very epic, well written, powerful and sounds incredible with the guitaring and effects. Sound mix: 8/10 Likability: 4/10 Artwork: 9/10 Re listen value: 3/10 Rock-Reviews rating: 6/10.
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